The Aussie Pinball Arcade
Aussie Pinball Forums => Restorations => Topic started by: studley67 on May 04, 2013, 10:39:07 PM
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This project started a couple of years ago when i purchased a populated playfield of e-bay.
I recently bought an original NOS backglass form the states then whent about finding a cabinet to put them in.thanks to the forum i was able to get a cab from geelong,nick and daniel.the cab is a system4 headbox on a firepower base.
I could not find an exact match as the backbox was unique to a few titles only,with a smaller backglass
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=Laser+cue&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick
I have ordered boards,displays,wire,connectors,crimps,heatshrink and ribon cables.
i have to re-wire the entire machine as the playfield loom had been cut off.
I will upload some photos soon as i get some parts in the cab. <..>
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Wow, sounds like a massive project. Good luck with it and I look outward to reading your progress updates. ^^^
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Good to hear the cab has gone to a good use. Looking forward to the photos.
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Bloody spell check! forward not "outward".
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Good luck Damien look forward to progress reports. I have my hyperball headbox if you need photos of te differences?
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Good luck Damien look forward to progress reports. I have my hyperball headbox if you need photos of te differences?
thanx dan,dean was going to send me pics and measurements of his Lasercue head.
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Good luck . Massive project there by the sounds of it
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Sounds like this machine had nothing going for it at all. Piece by piece dedication. Look forward to seeing the results
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My 50 volt toroidal transformer arrived today $#$.Looks like it has two secondary windings at 3 amps each.I hope this is enough for all the flippers,it was recomended by gav,retropin.
Nice and compact,will easily fit in backbox.Plus the heat shrink also arrived today,for joining all those wires.
At least i have made a start. !@#
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I have ordered the special flipper board to convert from ac to dc.not sure how to wire it up until it arrives.
as noted by some,this is a big project.BUT worth doing,so i will do.because i can. ^^^
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Pics - we want pics ^^^
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Pics - we want pics ^^^
Yeah , bring on the pics ASAP ^^^
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The wire,flipper power board,sound board and heaps of heatshrink,came this week.Also i bought coloured heat shrink to cut up and use as coded wire idents.Awaiting the displays and power supply board from mad amusements.Plus the conectors from great plains electronics.Hoping to have them in the next week or two.Stay tuned,pics to follow.
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Good luck Damien look forward to progress reports. I have my hyperball headbox if you need photos of te differences?
thanx dan,dean was going to send me pics and measurements of his Lasercue head.
Yes still need to do this ^^^
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no rush dean,this will be a year long project.Some teaser pics
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Ha Ha!! Looks like the sort of pile you need a 3mm Allen Key for
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Ha Ha!! Looks like the sort of pile you need a 3mm Allen Key for
took ot my 3mm Allen Key today.and started wiring up the old girl.pics
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more wiring +continuous lacing with wax lacing cord.photos+
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I hope to have the looms attached to the playfield tommorow,then i have to re-attach the target bank(solder more wires) and make a custom lamp strips 5 lamps x 2 to fit to playfield.these were mising.I am still awaiting the new displays and power board.hopefully they will arive by the end of the week.
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Wow your fingers and eyes must be stuffed after joining soldering and heat shrinking all those wires. How are you working out what wire goes where??? It's just mind boggling well done
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Wow your fingers and eyes must be stuffed after joining soldering and heat shrinking all those wires. How are you working out what wire goes where??? It's just mind boggling well done
years of experience,i am a wireperson by trade.At least i have made a start. $#$
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I hope to have the looms attached to the playfield tommorow,then i have to re-attach the target bank(solder more wires) and make a custom lamp strips 5 lamps x 2 to fit to playfield.these were mising.I am still awaiting the new displays and power board.hopefully they will arive by the end of the week.
Hey Studley, don't know if these are any use to you? Bit of surface rust, might save some effort though? Happy to send over - if you're interested, post the lamp to lamp centre distance and overall length and I'll see if they are a match.
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WOW,they look right,i'll measure,lamp to lamp is about 32mm overall is 160mm.i was going to hack my phoenix playfield it has 2 strips of 10. $#$.i hope
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Bummer! These are about 50mm between lamps and 250mm overall, dang it, sorry!
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Hmm, but these ones look close!! Send me over your address by PM and I'll mail them over.
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no probs nick.thanks anyway.ddstoys,I labled all the new white wires with colour coded heatshrink.but i could not buy orange so i substituted green/yellow for orange.where there was light blue and dark i used 1 blue heatshrink for light blue,2 for darkblue.And wrote them in my BOOK.
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Man your a legend I've saved some machines but a hacked loom is normally a No for me but after seeing this and kidamigos efforts if one comes up I might save it
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thanks HEAPS nick,they will save me a lot of time customising. ^^^
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I used up the last of my lacing cord today,NEED more.anybody work in the wiring field that has a spare roll-end would be much apreciated.
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Man your a legend I've saved some machines but a hacked loom is normally a No for me but after seeing this and kidamigos efforts if one comes up I might save it
laugh,yeah mate stop hanging them on the ceiling.or get them down and send to me.lol
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started attaching new looms to playfield.i did not get as far as i hoped,but tommorrow is another day.pics
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I managed to get 4 hours into this today.very tedious work.pics.
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I did a full loom swap on a Joker Poker playfield, so I know what it's line, and don't envy you that job!!
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Mate great job, I have to do this on a Gottlieb Big House that has had al loom cut from both cabinet and play field. All connectors are missing and all has to be redone. I'm looking forward to challenge may have to call on u for advice
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no probs dean for advice.that photo of the insert panel in the backbox would be nice soon.or maybee cut a big piece of paper and tape it to the insert and mark the holes for the lamps etc.just a thought.hope i am not asking for to much.then send it to me.i'll pay $
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no probs dean for advice.that photo of the insert panel in the backbox would be nice soon.or maybee cut a big piece of paper and tape it to the insert and mark the holes for the lamps etc.just a thought.hope i am not asking for to much.then send it to me.i'll pay $
No payment required, happy to do it for you
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received lamp strips today from nick,pinies4me.thanks nick.I thought i will pre-emt any lamp failures,so i filed the lamp holders and metal strip adjacent so as to solder them together.I dug out my 30 year old 100watt weller for the job.pics
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.I dug out my 30 year old 100watt weller for the job.pics
Miss my old Weller, left the same one back in UK. Great when I was on my back trying to solder something up in a car dash board. There still made, but bet the (Weller) Chinese ones won't give you 30 years. *.*
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and would you belive the original globe is still in it. $#$ and working $#$
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and would you belive the original globe is still in it. $#$ and working $#$
My 30's and 40's pins have many of the original globes in them... all still working
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They were definitely made better back then. Most globes in my 1955 marathon still worked when I got it changed them all to new ones and have replaced half of them again since lol
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Excellent work so far Studley . ^^^
I reckon cable lacing must be a lost art these days .
I learnt how to do it during my traineeship with OTC in the early 80's .